Only a few months after her Grammy award-winning collaborative album with the Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson has announced it's follow-up, due out in the fall. The record is another collaboration, this time with Tibetan singer and multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal and composer Jesse Paris Smith, who is the daughter of Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith.
Billed as "a sonic journey through The Tibetan Book of the Dead", Songs From the Bardo is a fourteen-track LP, to be released on the Smithsonian Folkways label. Choegyal chants, plays Tibetan singing bowls, gong, lingbu and dranyen on the album. Laurie Anderson provides vocals and violin. Smith plays piano, crystal bowls, and gong.
“I have tried to channel the wisdom and traditions of my ancestors through my music in a very contemporary way while holding the depth of my lineage.”
- Tenzin Choegyal, LP liner notes
“The music is meant to help you float out of your body, to go into these other realms, and to let yourself do that without boundaries"
- Laurie Anderson, LP liner notes
The record will be released September 27th.
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